24 June, 2017
On Monday the White House announced that Kushner as well as Jason Greenblatt, a top U.S. national security aide, would meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week.
Nickolay Mladenov stressed that the United Nations considers settlement activities illegal under worldwide law.
According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian approached an IDF outpost near the village of a-Ram, not far from Qalandiyah, south of Jerusalem, managing to cross its outer fence.
The cutback, announced last week by the Israeli government, is expected to shorten by at least 45 minutes the daily average of four hours of power that Gaza's 2 million residents receive from an electricity grid dependent on Israeli supplies, Palestinian officials said.
In his few months in office, Trump has forged a good working relationship with both the Israelis and Palestinians, highlighted by a successful visit to the region last month.
Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and designated chief for Mideast diplomacy, arrives Wednesday to meet Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other central players.
Netanyahu has in the past given conditional backing to two states.
Amichai is just part of the problem, of course, with Israel's continued expansion of settlements across the West Bank leaving less and less land for the Palestinian population to ever end up with its own state in.
U.N. Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov made the assessment in his second quarterly report to the 15-member council on the implementation of a December 23 resolution adopted with 14 votes in favour and a US abstention.
Trump administration officials have said that if they are going to make progress on peace, they do not want to get bogged down in process but to move rapidly on tackling what are known as "final status" issues, the complexities around Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, water resources, security and borders.
The December resolution, put forward by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and Trump, was the first adopted by on Israel and the Palestinians in almost eight years.
The IDF said the assailant was a 23-years-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Azarya.
Thousands attended Hadas Malka's funeral on Saturday night. Some 250 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire during the same period, a lot of them identified as attackers by Israel. He also criticized Abbas for not condemning the attack.
